The materials that are freely available to anyone on the Internet? Besides, if you develop for alternative stores, you still need to pay the $99/year fee.
> the push notification system
How much does running that system cost for the average app? Is Apple willing to allow alternative push notification systems?
Just as a reminder, I'm not saying iOS should stay closed. Mobile computing platforms should be open and allow innovation.
However, we cannot simply force private companies to provide services that costs them money. They are also under no obligation to implement any other continuous communication system to devices on their platform. It is their platform, with good and bad.
Being free or open does not constitute that every valuable product or service Apple created are now in the public domain and nobody should be paying for them.
> However, we cannot simply force private companies to provide services that costs them money.
Ah, but we can.
> They are also under no obligation to implement any other continuous communication system to devices on their platform.
And yes, they are.
Just like how utility companies aren't allowed to shut off the water because someone stopped paying. They can choose to stop doing business if they do not agree with these laws.
So this is not about creating an open and free market but instead forcibly taking the property of private companies and making them sell product at a loss.
The materials that are freely available to anyone on the Internet? Besides, if you develop for alternative stores, you still need to pay the $99/year fee.
> the push notification system
How much does running that system cost for the average app? Is Apple willing to allow alternative push notification systems?